Contents by Genre
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- Burroughs, Edgar Rice. from Tarzan of the Apes *
- Cather, Willa. Paul’s Case *
- Cather, Willa. A Wagner Matinée
- Chekhov, Anton. The Lady with the Dog *
- Chopin, Kate. The Story of an Hour *
- Conrad, Joseph. An Outpost of Progress *
- Crane, Stephen. The Open Boat *
- Crane, Stephen. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky *
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Winter Dreams *
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper *
- Harte, Bret. The Luck of Roaring Camp
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Birthmark *
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Minister’s Black Veil *
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Young Goodman Brown *
- Hemingway, Ernest. Hills Like White Elephants *
- Hurston, Zora Neale. Spunk *
- James, Henry. The Jolly Corner
- James, Henry. The Real Thing
- Jewett, Sarah Orne. A White Heron *
- Joyce, James. Eveline *
- Kincaid, Jamaica. Girl *
- Lawrence, D. H. The Horse Dealer’s Daughter *
- London, Jack. The Law of Life
- London, Jack. To Build a Fire *
- Mansfield, Katherine. Miss Brill *
- Mansfield, Katherine. The Fly *
- Melville, Herman. Bartleby, the Scrivener *
- Poe, Edgar Allan. The Cask of Amontillado *
- Twain, Mark. The Story of the Good Little Boy
- Updike, John. A&P *
- Wharton, Edith. The Quicksand
The following selections are available with annotations to assist reading. These readings accompany the Draw Connections exercise in the modules featured in the main contents of LaunchPad Solo for Literature, but they may also be used independently. To assign these readings, follow the instructions for Adding a Link to a LaunchPad Unit.
- Chopin, Kate. The Storm
- Chopin, Kate. The Story of an Hour
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Minister’s Black Veil
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Young Goodman Brown
- Hemingway, Ernest. Hills Like White Elephants
- Joyce, James. Araby *
- Kincaid, Jamaica. Girl *
- Poe, Edgar Allan. The Tell-Tale Heart
- Updike, John. A&P *
- Anonymous. Bonny Barbara Allen
- Anonymous. Scarborough Fair
- Anonymous. The Frog
- Anonymous. There was a young lady named Bright
- Anonymous. Western Wind
- Arnold, Matthew. Dover Beach
- Behn, Aphra. On Her Loving Two Equally
- Blake, William. Infant Sorrow
- Blake, William. London
- Blake, William. The Chimney Sweeper
- Blake, William. The Garden of Love
- Blake, William. The Lamb
- Blake, William. The Tyger
- Bradstreet, Anne. Before the Birth of One of Her Children
- Bradstreet, Anne. To My Dear and Loving Husband
- Bradstreet, Anne. The Author to Her Book *
- Bronte, Emily. Riches I hold in light esteem
- Brooks, Gwendolyn. We Real Cool *
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. When our two souls stand up erect and strong
- Browning, Robert. Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
- Browning, Robert. Meeting at Night
- Browning, Robert. My Last Duchess
- Browning, Robert. Parting at Morning
- Burns, Robert. A Red, Red Rose
- Byron, Lord George Gordon. She walks in Beauty
- Carroll, Lewis. Jabberwocky
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Kubla Khan
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. What is an Epigram?
- Crane, Stephen. Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
- Crane, Stephen. A Man Said to the Universe
- Dickinson, Emily. Apparently With No Surprise
- Dickinson, Emily. “Faith” is a fine invention
- Dickinson, Emily. I heard a fly buzz-when I died- *
- Dickinson, Emily. I Know That He Exists
- Dickinson, Emily. If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
- Dickinson, Emily. Oh Sumptuous Moment
- Dickinson, Emily. Portraits Are to Daily Faces
- Dickinson, Emily. Some keep the Sabbath going to Church—
- Dickinson, Emily. The Bustle in a House
- Dickinson, Emily. The Thought Beneath So Slight a Film—
- Dickinson, Emily. To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
- Dickinson, Emily. Water, is taught by thirst
- Dickinson, Emily. Wild Nights—Wild Nights!
- Donne, John. Batter my heart, three-personed God
- Donne, John. The Flea
- Donne, John. Death Be Not Proud
- Donne, John. Song
- Donne, John. The Apparition
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence. We Wear the Mask
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Theology
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence. To a Captious Critic
- Eliot, George. In a London Drawingroom
- Eliot, T. S. Preludes
- Eliot, T. S. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Farries, Helen. Magic of Love
- Freneau, Philip. The Indian Burying Ground
- Frost, Robert. After Apple-Picking
- Frost, Robert. Birches
- Frost, Robert. The Road Not Taken
- Frost, Robert. An Old Man’s Winter Night
- Frost, Robert. Home Burial
- Frost, Robert. “In White”: An Early Version of “Design”
- Frost, Robert. Mending Wall *
- Frost, Robert. Mowing
- Frost, Robert. My November Guest
- Frost, Robert. “Out, Out—”
- Frost, Robert. Storm Fear
- Frost, Robert. The Oven Bird
- Frost, Robert. The Pasture
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Queer People
- Gray, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Hardy, Thomas. The Convergence of the Twain
- Hardy, Thomas. Hap
- Hardy, Thomas. In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”
- Harper, Frances E. W Learning to Read
- Herbert, George. The Pulley
- Herbert, George. The Collar
- Herrick, Robert. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
- Herrick, Robert. Delight in Disorder
- Herrick, Robert. Upon Julia’s Clothes
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley. God’s Grandeur
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Spring and Fall
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Hurrahing in Harvest
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Pied Beauty
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley. The Windhover
- Housman, A. E. “Terence, this is stupid stuff”
- Housman, A. E. To an Athlete Dying Young
- Housman, A. E. Is my team ploughing
- Housman, A. E. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
- Housman, A. E. When I was one-and-twenty
- Howe, Julia Ward. Battle-Hymn of the Republic
- Hughes, Langston. The Negro Speaks of Rivers *
- Jonson, Ben. On My First Son
- Jonson, Ben. Still to be Neat
- Jonson, Ben. To Celia
- Keats, John. To Autumn
- Keats, John. Ode to a Nightingale
- Keats, John. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
- Keats, John. To one who has been long in city pent
- Keats, John. When I have fears that I may cease to be
- Keats, John. Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition
- Keats, John. La Belle Dame sans Merci
- Keats, John. Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Lazarus, Emma. The New Colossus
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Snow-Flakes
- Lowell, Amy. The Pond
- Marlowe, Christopher. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
- Marvell, Andrew. To His Coy Mistress *
- McKay, Claude. America
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent. Wild Swans
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent. Recuerdo
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent. First Fig
- Milton, John. On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
- Milton, John. When I consider how my light is spent
- Owen, Wilfred. Dulce et Decorum Est
- Poe, Edgar Allan. Annabel Lee
- Poe, Edgar Allan. The Haunted Palace
- Pope, Alexander. from An Essay on Criticism
- Raleigh, Sir Walter. The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
- Robinson, Edwin Arlington. Richard Cory
- Robinson, Mary. London’s Summer Morning
- Rossetti, Christina Georgina. In Progress
- Rossetti, Christina Georgina. Promises Like Pie-Crust
- Rossetti, Christina Georgina. Some Ladies Dress in Muslin Full and White
- Rossetti, Christina Georgina. Song
- Rossetti, Christina Georgina. The World
- Sandburg, Carl. Buttons
- Sandburg, Carl. Chicago
- Sappho. Beautiful-throned, Immortal Aphrodite
- Sappho. Immortal Aphrodite of the broidered throne
- Sassoon, Siegfried. “They”
- Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 116
- Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 130
- Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 18
- Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 73
- Shakespeare, William. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
- Shakespeare, William. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
- Shakespeare, William. When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Ozymandias
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Ode to the West Wind
- Sidney, Sir Phillip. Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show
- Sigourney, Lydia Huntley. Indian Names
- Southey, Robert. from “The Cataract of Lodore”
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Sestina
- Taylor, Edward. Housewifery
- Tennyson, Lord Alfred. Break, Break, Break
- Tennyson, Lord Alfred. The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Tennyson, Lord Alfred. Crossing the Bar
- Tennyson, Lord Alfred. Tears, Idle Tears
- Tennyson, Lord Alfred. Ulysses
- Thomas, Dylan. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night *
- Whitman, Walt. A Noiseless Patient Spider
- Whitman, Walt. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
- Whitman, Walt. Cavalry Crossing a Ford
- Whitman, Walt. from “I Sing the Body Electric”
- Whitman, Walt. from Song of Myself
- Whitman, Walt. I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
- Whitman, Walt. One’s-Self I Sing
- Whitman, Walt. When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
- William Carlos Williams. The Red Wheelbarrow
- Williams, William Carlos. To Waken an Old Lady
- Wordsworth, William. Ode: Intimations of Immortality
- Wordsworth, William. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
- Wordsworth, William. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
- Wordsworth, William. It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
- Wordsworth, William. London, 1802
- Wordsworth, William. Mutability
- Wordsworth, William. My Heart Leaps Up
- Wordsworth, William. The Solitary Reaper
- Wordsworth, William. The World is Too Much With Us
- Wyatt, Sir Thomas. They flee from me
The following selections are available with annotations to assist reading. These readings accompany the Draw Connections exercise in the modules featured in the main contents of LaunchPad Solo for Literature, but they may also be used independently. To assign these readings, follow the instructions for Adding a Link to a LaunchPad Unit.
- Bradstreet, Anne. Before the Birth of One of Her Children
- Bradstreet, Anne. The Author to Her Book
- Brooks, Gwendolyn. We Real Cool
- Dickinson, Emily. Because I could not stop for Death-
- Dickinson, Emily. I heard a Fly buzz-when I died- *
- Donne, John. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- Donne, John. The Flea
- Dungy, Camille. Because it looked hotter that way
- Frost, Robert. Mending Wall *
- Frost, Robert. The Wood-Pile
- Hughes, Langston. The Negro Speaks of Rivers *
- Marvell, Andrew. To His Coy Mistress *
- Pound, Ezra. In a Station of the Metro
- Thomas, Dylan. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night *
- Whitman, Walt. Starting from Paumanok
- Wilde, Oscar. from The Importance of Being Earnest
- Williams, William Carlos. The Red Wheelbarrow *
- Yeats, William Butler. The Stolen Child
- Glaspell, Susan. from Trifles *
- Ibsen, Henrik. from A Doll’s House *
- Shakespeare, William. from Hamlet *
- Shakespeare, William. from A Midsummer Night's Dream *
- Sophocles. from Antigone *
- Wilde, Oscar. from The Importance of Being Earnest
The following selections are available with annotations to assist reading. These readings accompany the Draw Connections exercise in the modules featured in the main contents of LaunchPad Solo for Literature, but they may also be used independently. To assign these readings, follow the instructions for Adding a Link to a LaunchPad Unit.
- Aeschylus. from Seven Against Thebes
- Glaspell, Susan. Trifles *
- Ibsen, Henrik. from A Doll's House
- Kyd, Thomas. from The Spanish Tragedy
- Middleton, Thomas. from The Revenger's Tragedy
- Shakespeare, William. from Hamlet
- Shakespeare, William. from A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Sheridan, Robert Brinsley. from The Rivals
- Sophocles. from Antigone
- Wilde, Oscar. from The Importance of Being Earnest
Nonfiction/Critical Contexts
- Dickinson, Emily. A Description of Herself
- Douglass, Frederick. Learning to Read and Write *
- Hurston, Zora Neale. How It Feels to Be Colored Me *
- Mayor of London. Objections to the Elizabethan Theater 1597
- Truth, Sojourner. Ain’t I a Woman?
- Zitkala-Sa. The School Days of an Indian Girl
Annotated Nonfiction/Cultural Contexts
The following selections are available with annotations to assist reading. These readings accompany the Draw Connections exercise in the modules featured in the main contents of LaunchPad Solo for Literature, but they may also be used independently. To assign these readings, follow the instructions for Adding a Link to a LaunchPad Unit.
- Salem Witch Trial Documents (see Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Young Goodman Brown)
- Sanger, Margaret. The Morality of Birth Control (see Hemingway, Ernest. Hills Like White Elephants)
- Shaw, George Bernard. Commentary on A Doll's House (see Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House)
- Sources of Trifles (see Glaspell, Susan. Trifles)
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Declaration of Sentiments (see Chopin, Kate. The Story of an Hour)
- Vorda, Allan. Interview on Girl, with Jamaica Kincaid (see Kincaid, Jamaica. Girl)